In spite of EA saying the original "under-performed," a sequel to Bulletstorm was in the works at People Can Fly before being cancelled by parent company Epic Games reports GameSpot, who hear from Epic president Mike Capps on the topic. Mike indicates they have put the Polish developer on a different project they will "be announcing pretty soon," though there is no clue if this is the recently revealed PC game Epic is planning. "We thought a lot about a sequel, and had done some initial development on it, but we found a project that we thought was a better fit for People Can Fly," he said. "We haven't announced that yet, but we will be announcing it pretty soon." He goes on to praise Bulletstorm and says he'd love to go back to the property, "but right now we don't have anything to talk about." Just to stir the pot a little, the story concludes with Capps' comment that sales of the PC version may have been harmed by piracy: "We made a PC version of Bulletstorm, and it didn't do very well on PC and I think a lot of that was due to piracy. It wasn't the best PC port ever, sure, but also piracy was a pretty big problem."

StingingVelvet wrote on Apr 11, 2012, 13:30:I don't really see how it's different from any other cause of regulation. Sure big companies push it for money reasons, but in the end they can only do so because people are so flagrantly abusive of the freedom offered.

Pretty much every regulation comes from similar abuses.

I find the premise fatally flawed and predicated on anecdotes so *shrug*. Can't really think of an excuse for kneejerk legislation that can have long term negative impact on many different markets when there is little to support it. It's also incredibly difficult to implement and enforce considering the differences in international copyright law, not to mention the nature of the internet itself.

Sensible regulation with both corporate and public input is a different story but that's not what they've been attempting to do.

I think many markets are adapting just fine as is and are providing more convenience/value which is the real way to fight consumer piracy.